Barrington Moore has come a long way since he published his monumental study, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, over a decade ago and since he collaborated with Herbert Marcuse and Robert Paul Wolff in 1965 on an unfortunate book in praise of intolerance, A Critique of Pure Tolerance. The revolutionary rhetoric of these works has been replaced by a wry and disillusioned skepticism in regard to radical politics. Moore’s Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them (1972) already prepared us for a shift in perspective, but the present work completes the turn from a radical-re...